Some more New Year Resolutions to kick start 2014

The New Year has come and the internet is flooded with New Year Resolutions that one should definitely have, and also those which should be avoided at any cost. It is a tradition that id followed with utmost devotion – to make resolutions that you may or may not follow through the year (it will be presumptuous of me to assume no one follows theirs).

After careful deliberation and a lack of anything more productive to you I decided that it will be good to document the few resolutions that are revolving around in my mind. So here it goes:

Want this to be on my table!

1) The BIG ONE: This is the year where I will start working, actually paying job, 9-5 (or something near enough) timing and all that jazz. I just hope that whatever I do I love. I don’t want to be one of those people who work for money and only money. It is important definitely but I want enough strength and presence of mind to know that this (whatever it turns out to be) is what I want to do.

2) As much as ‘growing up’ is fun I want to keep what little childish-ness I have intact for the rest of my life. It is fun and it is what I need when everything else gets to be too much to handle. If the prediction of work and deadlines and projects in the near future comes true then it’ll be my only weapon for keeping me sane and functional.

If they can do it then I want to try too. Not the family thing but
"hey we are adults and still crazy having fun" thing.

3) Learn how to drive: I know how to drive, have taken classes and practiced on and off for some time. Now what I need is regular practice and the gut to take the car out in Delhi traffic. This isn't me looking for easier transportation but simply learning a skill which can come handy in many situations. I just need to get over my phobia of getting into an accident or hurting someone.

I think this phobia is legit, no matter what others say!

4) Relax more: I realized that despite all my talks of being not very stressed I don’t take time out to spend it with a lot of my friends. We have crazy uncoordinated schedules but when I do meet them after a long time all I can think is that I should have done this earlier. So this year I am going to make sure that I meet the people I miss without waiting for them to come forward (meaning I will be less an ass and make the first move!!)

5) Make lots of future plans, each being more extravagant and unreal or almost unreal than the last. What is the fun in living if you can’t have unbelievable dreams that you want to make real? Be it an all out,  spending money like water trip to LAS VEGAS or buying a sprawling villa in the mountains/beach house, I want it all. It all comes back to the saying I have heard a million times – “Always aim for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars”.

Maybe I am being a little too literal!

Noises and Silences

There is noise when I wake up and there is noise when I sleep.

We speak too much and we speak before we think.

Our day starts with either a simple good morning

while we smile and welcome the new day.

Or it is a groan of frustration,

on the sleep left unfinished once again.

As the day progresses the noise does not die down;

it builds like a crescendo,

which we expect to peak and crash at any moment.

We wait in anticipation till we can’t wait anymore;

we may scream to join in the noise,

or we may fight it with our silence.

If people decide to say less and do more,

this world might become as we wish for it to be.

It’s hard to separate the meaningful from the meaningless.

It’s all scrambled into nothing but noise.

I wish the noise of traffic and the ever present humanity

could fall down in its volume, and

we could enjoy that silent peace that

we travel thousands of miles to seek.

But then I realize this silence is no less noisy

because nature was not made for silence.

It has the chirping birds and the rustling trees;

it has our breathing as it has the blowing wind.

There is the noise of life and

then there is the white noise of silence.

In a city, early morning is a time of peace,

when the world is still muddled by its slumber.

Then too you can hear the gentle reminder

of life that continues even as we sleep.

This silence is not what I seek.

I seek a time when the voices of humanity

is what draws me in.

A silence where voices have meaning

and meanings are given a voice.

Where the noise can be filtered and

the meaning can be heard.

A silence which has hundreds of thoughts

and not just futile chatter filling it up.

A silence in which words still hold their value

which the noise does not disrupt.